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La technopolice aux frontières - 22 février 2021
Comment le business de la sécurité et de la surveillance au sein de l’Union européenne, en plus de bafouer des droits fondamentaux, utilise les personnes exilées comme laboratoire de recherche, et ce sur des fonds publics européens.
On a beaucoup parlé ici ces derniers mois de surveillance des manifestations ou de (...)
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Where Do Vaccine Doses Go, and Who Gets Them ? The Algorithms Decide - 12 février 2021
Health agencies and hospitals are using different formulas to allocate the coronavirus shots, exacerbating disparities in vaccine access.
Faced with the daunting task of parceling out a limited supply of coronavirus vaccines, Trump administration officials came up with a seemingly simple formula last year to (...)
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Le New York Times a identifié des envahisseurs du Capitole, mais ce n’est pas une bonne nouvelle - 12 février 2021
Le New York Times a récupéré une base de données issue d’applications, qui s’échange dans les milieux publicitaires et financiers. En quelques clics, le journal a pu identifier plus d’une centaine de supporters de Trump qui ont pénétré le Capitole.
Grâce à une base de données envoyée par une ou un anonyme, le New York Times (...)
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Gig Workers’ Data Rights Should Be Prioritized in Labor’s Next Fight - 9 février 2021
In the November election, California voters delivered a blow to gig workers by passing Prop 22, a ballot initiative permitting companies like Uber and Lyft to continue treating app-based and delivery drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. The vote was widely seen as a rebuttal to AB5, a 2019 law (...)
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ICE Threatened Asylum-Seekers With Covid-19 Exposure - 7 février 2021
Amid a rush of deportations, four detainees at two different ICE detention centers said that guards threatened to put them in Covid-19 wards.
Three Cameroonian asylum-seekers locked up at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Louisiana say that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard threatened to (...)
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Lobbying Fortress Europe - 7 février 2021
The making of a border-industrial complex
The massive expansion of the budget, personnel, and powers of the EU’s border agency Frontex has also seen increasingly privileged access for industry. This perpetuates a vision of border control based on more and more firearms and biometric surveillance that has major (...)
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Livreurs : la lente conquête syndicale - 5 février 2021
A quelques mois des ordonnances qui trancheront sur les modalités du dialogue social pour les plates-formes, de plus en plus de villes se dotent de collectifs de livreurs.
Un salaire de 10,30 euros de l’heure pour 4 500 livreurs en CDI – vous avez bien lu, en contrat à durée indéterminée –, c’est l’objectif annuel que (...)
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EU’s proposed screening rules for migrants are based on "failed and violent" Greek law - 30 janvier 2021
The EU’s proposed ’Screening Regulation’, published as part of the Pact on Migration and Asylum, foresees "pre-entry screening that should be applicable to all third-country nationals who are present at the external border without fulfilling the entry conditions or after disembarkation, following a search and rescue (...)
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Lo scontro Viminale-Garante della privacy sul riconoscimento facciale in tempo reale - 29 janvier 2021
Finanziato dall’Europa, il sistema SARI dovrebbe monitorare le operazioni di sbarco e tutte le varie attività correlate. In altri Stati questa tecnologia è stata già giudicata illegale
Mentre in tutto il mondo si discute dei rischi etici del riconoscimento facciale, della necessità di sospendere queste tecnologie (...)
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How the Pandemic Turned Refugees Into ‘Guinea Pigs’ for Surveillance Tech - 21 janvier 2021
An interview with Dr. Petra Molnar, who spent 2020 investigating the use of drones, facial recognition, and lidar on refugees
The coronavirus pandemic unleashed a new era in surveillance technology, and arguably no group has felt this more acutely than refugees. Even before the pandemic, refugees were subjected (...)
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Data et nouvelles technologies, la face cachée du contrôle des mobilités - 21 janvier 2021
Dans un rapport de juillet 2020, l’Agence européenne pour la gestion opérationnelle des systèmes d’information à grande échelle (EU-Lisa) présente l’intelligence artificielle (IA) comme l’une des « technologies prioritaires » à développer. Le rapport souligne les avantages de l’IA en matière migratoire et aux frontières, grâce, (...)
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Frontex to expand cooperation with Operation IRINI - 21 janvier 2021
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency and Operation EUNAVFOR MED IRINI have agreed last Friday to expand their cooperation to address challenges and threats to EU security in the Central Mediterranean region.
Under a new working arrangement, Frontex will be supporting Operation IRINI with (...)
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Texas Deploys Virtual Border Patrol - 17 janvier 2021
Texas has started broadcasting live images of the U.S. border on the Internet in a security program that asks the public to report signs of illegal immigration or drug crimes.
A test Web site went live Thursday at texasborderwatch.com with views from eight cameras and ways for viewers to e-mail reports of (...)
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Artificial intelligence : Frontex improves its maritime surveillance – Matthias Monroy - 16 janvier 2021
Frontex wants to use a new platform to automatically detect and assess „risks“ on the seas of the European Union. Suspected irregular activities are to be displayed in a constantly updated „threat map“ with the help of self-learning software.
The EU border agency has renewed a contract with Israeli company Windward (...)
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Belastingdienst werkte zeer kritische Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens tegen - 16 janvier 2021
De Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens oordeelt keihard over de Belastingdienst. De AP werd tegengewerkt en onjuist voorgelicht tijdens haar onderzoek. ‘De Belastingdienst handelde discriminerend.’
De werkwijze van de Belastingdienst in de toeslagenaffaire was ‘onrechtmatig, discriminerend en onbehoorlijk’. In een (...)
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Dutch Government Resigns After Benefits Scandal - 16 janvier 2021
A parliamentary report concluded that tax authorities unfairly targeted poor families over child care benefits. Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his entire cabinet stepped down.
Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands, one of Europe’s longest-serving leaders, and his cabinet resigned on Friday over a report (...)
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Pays-Bas : le gouvernement accuse à tort 26 000 familles d’une fraude aux allocations familiales, il démissionne - 16 janvier 2021
Des milliers de familles ont été accusées à tort de fraude aux allocations familiales, avant d’être contraintes à les rembourser, ce qui a plongé une partie d’entre elles dans de graves problèmes financiers.
Des milliers de familles (26 000 parents) ont été accusées à tort de fraude aux allocations familiales, avant d’être (...)
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Texas Virtual Border Watch - 16 janvier 2021
The Texas Virtual Border Watch is a pilot program created by the State of Texas that allows individuals with internet access to observe and report on the Texas–Mexico border via their computers. On June 1, 2006, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced 5 million dollars to be used with the voluntary participation of (...)
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Covid-19 Ushered in a New Era of Government Surveillance - 30 décembre 2020
Government-mandated drone surveillance and location tracking apps could be here to stay
In early December, after finding 16 people had illegally crossed the border from Myanmar to Thailand and evaded the mandatory quarantine period, the Thai government said it would start patrolling the border with new (...)
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Use cases : Impermissable AI and fundamental rights breaches - 25 décembre 2020
This briefing has been compiled to assist policymakers in the context of the EU’s regulation on artificial intelligence. It outlines several cases studies across Europe where artificial intelligence is being used in a way that compromises EU law and fundamental rights, and therefore requires a legal prohibition or (...)
